Project Name: "Museum of Art Glass Pavilion in Toledo". Ohio, US. 2006. Project Credits: SANAA Project Brief Description:
Just as theater-in-the-round radically changes the relationship between actors and audience, so the new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art subverts many of the old rules of displaying art. By using mostly clear-glass walls for both the building’s envelope and its interior partitions, the architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Tokyo firm SANAA have performed the museum equivalent of stripping away the proscenium stage and creating a more fluid dynamic between art and viewer. Materials and boundaries disappear, corners dissolve, front and back no longer apply. The building provides spatial drama using a remarkable economy of means, but at the same time creates a series of challenges for the museum’s curators.
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Project Credits: SANAA
Project Brief Description:
Just as theater-in-the-round radically changes the relationship between actors and audience, so the new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art subverts many of the old rules of displaying art. By using mostly clear-glass walls for both the building’s envelope and its interior partitions, the architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Tokyo firm SANAA have performed the museum equivalent of stripping away the proscenium stage and creating a more fluid dynamic between art and viewer. Materials and boundaries disappear, corners dissolve, front and back no longer apply. The building provides spatial drama using a remarkable economy of means, but at the same time creates a series of challenges for the museum’s curators.
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http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0701toledo.asp
http://www.toledomuseum.org/glass-pavilion/